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Mayor McCarthy: Waltham s vaccine rollout plan
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It is a new year, there is a new administration in place, but there is one old problem: controlling the deadly coronavirus, a pandemic that has taken the lives of over 410,000 Americans, nearly 14,000 Massachusetts residents, and 104 Waltham residents.
Waltham remains in a red zone, designated as a high risk community, regarding the spread of the coronavirus. As of Jan. 21 the city had 4,018 positive cases, 3,382 recovered cases, and 104 deaths from the disease.
There have been a total of 236 cases of COVID-19 in the Waltham Public School district since Oct. 9, 2020.
But there is hope in sight: vaccines are coming.
MIDDLESEX EAST - He just couldnât sleep. Thatâs the explanation of how a 27-year-old from Woburn managed to secure some 15,000 medical-grade and high-end fabric masks and launch a grassroots charity that donated every single one of them to area hospitals, businesses, and non-profits.
Last winter, while most public health experts were still dismissing the idea that a novel virus in China could pose a grave and present danger to the western world, Woburnâs Mark Melanson was already convinced the U.S. was about the face the greatest national crisis since World War II.
Melanson, a certified public accountant (CPA) whose familiarity with the world of finance left him familiar with statistical phenomenons like exponential growth, had read enough early COVID-19 research papers and epidemiological studies to understand what would happen once the SARS-CoV-2 virus landed on Americaâs shores.